I'd start with: 1. What do I want to learn? 2. Regarding that particular topic's community: on which online chatroom platform is it most active? For example,

I'd start with: 1. What do I want to learn? 2. Regarding that particular topic's community: on which online chatroom platform is it most active? For example, Discord hosts official communities for: Strapi (headless CMS framework), NestJS. Whereas IRC (Libera server) hosts official communities for: NodeJS. I don't recall if other IRC channels I visit are official-- but it has many other great chat rooms. Some are on both. For example (Note: I am not sure if this particular site represents Linux officially)--> "This is the official site for the Linux.Chat community, namely #linux on Libera and Linux.Chat on Discord" [1]. Note they list IRC first, Discord second. That's my approach in terms of prioritizing the two, as well: Personally I prefer IRC for its simplicity and old-school history & philosophy. [1] https://linux.chat/ https://linux.chat/